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Name	Categories	Pricing	Tags	Description
Audiokinetic Wwise	Sound Engine	Free, Paid	Audio	Audiokinetic Wwise - revolutionizing audio authoring and sound engine development tools for game developers and interactive media.
FMOD Studio	Sound Engine	Free, Paid	Audio	Made for games - FMOD Studio is fast, fluid and flexible software for creating adaptive music and sounds.
Umbra	SDK, Plugin	License	Engineering	Optimization for occulsion culling, shadow mapping, ray casting, and spatial awareness
Vivox	SDK	Free, Subscription	Communication	The voice & text chat platform that's trusted by the world's biggest gaming brands - now available for free.
Photon Realtime	SDK	Free, Trial, Subscription	Networking, Communication	Cross-Platform Networking Engine with multiplayer platform and services
Mirror	API	Free	Networking	Mirror is a high level Networking API for Unity, supporting different low level Transports. Mirror is built and tested for MMO Scale Networking by the developers of uMMORPG, uSurvival and Cubica.
Spatial OS	SDK	Free, Subscription	Networking	Use our managed networking stack for real-time multiplayer games: create multiplayer games that push the boundaries of what game engines can do.
GGPO	SDK	Free	Networking	GGPO networking SDK pioneered the use of rollback networking in peer-to-peer games. It's designed specifically to hide network latency in fast paced, twitch style games which require very precise inputs and frame perfect execution. Designed specifically network latency in fighting games.
Miles Sound System	Sound Engine	Paid	Audio	Miles features a no-compromise toolset that integrates high-level sound authoring with 2D and 3D digital audio, featuring streaming, environmental and convolution reverb, multistage DSP filtering, and multichannel mixing, and highly-optimized audio decoders (MP3, Ogg and Bink Audio).
Elias Studio	Sound Engine	Free, Paid	Audio	The Elias Studio is game composer’s tool for intuitively arranging adaptive music scores with unrivaled ease of use. You arrange your pre-recorded music files and decide how the music will transition in the game. With this tool, the composer can have complete control of the game soundtrack, and make everything ready for the game developer.
Fabric	Sound Engine	Free, Paid	Audio	Fabric provides a plethora of audio features and custom user interfaces that allow developers to design great audio. It’s nested component hierarchy allows users to create complex audio structures and combined with its event based system Fabric reduces the dependency on programmers giving more power to the sound-designers to work independently. Plugins available for Unity and Unreal.
Dolby Atmos	Sound Engine	Paid	Audio	Welcome to Dolby Developer, your hub for information, sample code and advice on how to best use Dolby technologies for your project. Whether you're developing for web, mobile, PC or a console game Dolby Developer has the answers to your audio questions. Game Engine Sound Plugin.
Coherent Gameface	Middleware	Paid	User Interface	Use the best technology for rich and interactive UI, reduce development time, use the most powerful visual tools, and be in control with Coherent Gameface. Game Engine UI Plugin, HTML/CSS/JS.
Noesis GUI	Middleware	Free, Paid	User Interface	NoesisGUI is a lightweight cross-platform C++ game user interface library based on XAML and optimized for GPUs. Game Engine UI SDK.
Mercuna	Middleware	Paid	Artificial Intelligence	Mercuna specializes in powerful navigation middlewares for AI in games. Our products are suitable for flying, underwater, character, vehicle and animal AIs. Advance Plugins available for Game Engines.
Spiritai	SDK	Free	Artificial Intelligence	Character Engine is an authoring tool and SDK for building AI-powered virtual characters. Conversations with virtual characters are driven using Natural Language Understanding, AI, and procedurally generated performances.
Kythera	Middleware	Paid	Artificial Intelligence	Advance AI and Navigation middleware fro CryEngine, Lumberyard, or Unreal Engine
Bink	Video Codec	Paid	Video	Bink is the defacto video codec for games. It has been licensed for over 15,000 games on 14 different platforms!
NexPlayerSDK	SDK	Trial, Paid	Video	Low Latency Video Player SDK
Genvidtech	SDK	Free, Subscription	Video	Genvid's SDK enables developers to create and deliver premium interactive broadcasts to livestreaming audiences.
Imgtec	SDK, API	Free	Engineering	SDK and tools, documentation and support from one of the world's largest engineering teams dedicated to graphics processor development. Mobile VR SDK.
Mod.io	SDK, API, Plugin	Free	Engineering	Support modding on PC, console and mobile with mod.io, a platform which makes it easy to grow, manage and integrate UGC in-game, using our API, SDK and plugins for Unity, Unreal Engine and more.
Haden Aether Engine	SDK	Subscription	Engineering	Aether Engine is a spatial simulation application. It dynamically scales, providing more computing power as simulations grow in complexity.
Facebook Games SDKs	SDK	Free	Engineering	SDKs to integrate your games into the various Facebook Gaming platforms
GeForce NOW Developer Program	SDK	Free	Networking	SDK for integrating your game with the GeForce NOW cloud gaming service
Modulate	SDK	License	Artificial Intelligence, Audio	Voice chat shouldn't have to be toxic. Modulate uses revolutionary new machine learning to offer tools like hyper-realistic, character-specific voice skins which create a more immersive, engaging, and inclusive social experience in any online platform.
AirConsole	API, Plugin	Free	Engineering	AirConsole is an online video game console that brings back local multiplayer in the most intuitive way for a modern environment.
LyncByte Games Easy Game Port	Plugin	Free, License	Engineering	EasyGamePort is an open-source plugin that fully automates the technical aspects of game porting. It handles the implementation of save systems, controls, achievements/trophies, console activity, and much more, enabling game developers with no porting experience to independently bring their games to consoles at minimal cost.

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